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Bail was set Wednesday at $50,000 for a former office manager accused of using the identity of a retired Elgin podiatrist to run up about $7,000 in credit card bills, police said. Angel L. Castro, 46, of the 2700 block of Impressions Drive in Lake in the Hills was charged Tuesday with one count of aggravated identity theft, police said. Bail was set at a hearing in Kane County Circuit Court. Castro was an office manager for an Elgin podiatrist who retired in January 2006, police said.

An office manager at a hospital (erroneous information regarding Maurice Vallejo?s employer has been deleted here and in subsequent references in this text) who was trying to "get back at his boss" downloaded child pornography on his supervisor's computer, then reported the images to police, authorities said. The would-be whistle-blower, Maurice Vallejo, admitted to investigators that he was upset that his supervisor had spurned his advances and that he retrieved the images off the Internet himself, Assistant State's Atty.

You made a reservation at the restaurant for 7 but still haven't been seated by 7:45. What do you? Complain to the manager, of course. But the instinct to express your dissatisfaction can be mysteriously muted when you're unhappy with a doctor. We invest our docs with so much power that it feels awkward or downright impossible to tell them when we think they've treated us badly or provided inadequate care. And, because our health or our very lives may depend on them, we don't want to anger them.

As office manager of the Kane County sheriff's office, Bonnie Kay Thielk often took on more responsibilities than her main role of supervising all the records and civilian staff of the office. As upset relatives came to the County Jail, Mrs. Thielk would go out of her way to be helpful and treated each with dignity in an emotional time. "A lot of times she worked the front desk, and relatives would be embarrassed," said Amy Blacksmith, interim office manager. "But she always took the time to talk to them and to make them feel as if things will work out. She always made an effort to make it seem like it was going to be OK."

On the nightstand next to Joseph T. Prendergast's bed sat a used paperback book containing the lyrics of all of the Top 40 music the tenor crooned for his own and his family's pleasure. As a younger man, he sang in Latin with the church choir at the 10 a.m. mass at St. Helena's Catholic Church on Chicago's South Side, performances that drew a standing-room only crowd. "He loved music and was always singing throughout his life," said his son Joe, the eldest of his 12 children.

Donald W. Riedl became interested in first-aid classes in the early 1970s as an office manager in Zenith Electronics Corp.'s color picture-tube plant in Melrose Park. Employees would be better served if they knew how to deal with medical emergencies, Mr. Riedl believed, so he signed up for a class with American Red Cross. That class led him to three decades of service with the non-profit organization, first as a part-time instructor and instructor trainer and eventually worked there full-time when Zenith closed its plant in 1998.

A fixture in Chicago law offices for four decades, Fannie Quarles was a blunt-talking professional who still used shorthand, baked memorable peach cobbler and scrimped to put her nephew and great-nephew through private school. "She seemed to know everything and everybody," said Rita Fry, who, as former Cook County chief public defender, employed Ms. Quarles for about 12 years. "I learned a lot from [my mentor], obviously, about being a lawyer, but I learned a lot from Fannie about how to get it done right."

Robert Castillo first proposed to John Pennycuff about seven years ago through an ad in one of Chicago's gay newspapers. But Castillo and Pennycuff bought their wedding rings Thursday. The pair, who were the first couple to register on Cook County's Domestic Partnership Registry in October, decided to fly to San Francisco on Thursday to get a marriage license. They plan to wait outside of the city clerk's office at 6 a.m. Friday to join the almost 3,000 same-sex couples who are now legally married.

Cook County's first official corruption watchdog is scheduled to go on trial Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Chicago to defend himself against a civil sex harassment suit filed by his former office manager. Timothy Flick, 55, was named inspector general in 1997 after a 26-year U.S. Secret Service career that included bodyguard assignments with two vice presidents. He left in 2002, several months after Sharla Roberts, 31, charged he took her to a movie on county time so he could make sexual advances, regularly commented on her body and clothes, fondled her and tried to kiss her. Flick now resides in Texas and is a criminal investigator for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The former manager of a Mundelein dental office pleaded guilty Tuesday to bilking insurers out of about $250,000, primarily by billing for work never performed on patients. To buttress the phony claims, Denise L. Sullivan, 43, of Wadsworth mailed insurers copies of X-rays of other patients who had previously undergone legitimate dental work. Sullivan filed claims for as many as nine fillings for individual patients on a single day when no work had been done, according to Assistant U.S. Atty.